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Section 245

Any person who wilfully or negligently –

of Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1960

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Section 245

(a)

injures or obscures any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy, beacon or navigational aid, or any cables, wires or other apparatus, either in connection therewith or otherwise;

(b)

removes, alters, injures or destroys any lightship, buoy, beacon or navigational aid, or any cables, wires or other apparatus, either in connection therewith or otherwise; or

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(c)

rides by, make fast to, or runs foul of any lightship, buoy, beacon or navigational aid;

shall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars.

Prevention of false lights.